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I had to concentrate to keep from throwing up as I read this:

Baby who was hurled to floor dies (31 August 2004 – Rochester, NY)

This happened 10 minutes from my home. I couldn’t think straight for a solid five minutes after I heard this news story for the first time. I’m still having trouble accepting that it actually happened – that there’s a devastating reality behind the ink on newsprint.

Nearly anyone who knows me knows that I’m a big fan of rights, particularly human rights. But as far as I’m concerned, you can compost the rights of the piece of shit that did this. Especially the one that forbids cruel and unusual punishment. I think they should make him watch the autopsy. I think they should show him exactly what he did to his own child, right before they drop him 20 feet onto his own skull. And if he somehow survives, I hope they’d make sure the rest of the inmates know what he did before they turn him loose in the prison yard.